Streamer from New Zealand was banned from Twitch for playing Forspoken on stream

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Square Enix's brand new RPG, Forspoken, is to be released on January 24, 2023, and streamers worldwide have been looking forward to trying it out on their streams. However, one creator from New Zealand by the moniker Gtamen has been handed a two-day ban by Twitch after a copyright strike.

The YouTuber has claimed that the game was legally out in his country when he streamed it on Twitch, that is January 24. Meaning that the copyright strike, which is still in effect at the time of writing, would be entirely unfair. Here's a screenshot of the blurb that pops out when trying to access his channel.

As the name implies, Gtamen is primarily a GTA V content creator, having streamed the game for a whopping 4.2K hours on stream. However, fans also know him for playing a variety of other games, including Red Dead Redemption 2, Fortnite, and Call of Duty Warzone. He recently played Pokemon, Callisto Protocol, and older GTA titles on his Twitch channel.

Naturally, he was one of the many creators looking forward to playing Forspoken, the brand new action-RPG game from the popular publisher Square Enix, known for their Final Fantasy franchise.

However, when he started streaming it, he was promptly handed a copyright strike with a 48-hour ban, according to the tweet, which he sarcastically captioned:

In the tweet, Gtamen shared a screengrab of the message that was sent to him after the ban, which confirms that the suspension indeed came from Luminous Productions Co, the developers behind Forspoken, and a subsidiary of Square Enix.

The reason given is that the game was not released and was apparently under embargo. Here is the relevant part of the mail:

From previous bans handed out by Twitch, it is clear that the decision is not solely on